Category: Media
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Catholic Opinion By the Numbers
Deal W. Hudson Nanci Pelosi is a conservative Catholic. Sure, she may be in favor of abortion, women priests, and homosexual marriages, but according to the House minority leader, that has no bearing on her life as a Catholic. How does she define “conservative Catholic”? In a January interview with the National Catholic Reporter, Pelosi…
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Lobbying For The Bishops
Deal W. Hudson There are two things I need to bring to your attention… First, the biannual meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Colorado came and went last week. Of course, you’d never know it from the minimal coverage. This is a shame since the bishops released a very important…
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A Little Hard To Believe
Deal W. Hudson On Sunday, John Kerry told Iowa’s Telegraph Herald that he personally opposes abortion and believes that life begins at conception. The exact quote is as follows: “I oppose abortion, personally. I don’t like abortion. I believe life does begin at conception.” Amazing. You may recall the e-letter I sent you in February…
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The Marriage Amendment Fails… For Now
Deal W. Hudson As you probably already heard, an initial cloture vote – to end debate on the bill and send the amendment to a final up-or-down vote – was held on Wednesday. Unfortunately, the motion failed by a 48-50 margin. It’s a serious setback to the FMA’s progress, to be sure, but not a…
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Love Where There Could Have Been Hate
Deal W. Hudson March 1, 2006 I have just returned from Rome, where a senior member of the Curia asked me to tell readers of The Window the following story. You may have already heard its beginning but in all likelihood, not its end. On Sunday, February 5, 2006, while praying in his church, an…
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Ten Things Republicans Must Do To Keep the Religious Vote
Deal W. Hudson August 26, 2006 A recent New York Times article reported a Pew Forum poll showing that significantly fewer people view the Republican Party as “friendly” to religion. “The survey found that the proportion of Americans who say the Republican Party is friendly to religion fell 8 percentage points in the last year, to 47…
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Pavarotti, a Voice That Will Never Die
Deal W. Hudson September 6, 2007 We all awakened this morning to the news that the greatest voice of our generation, Luciano Pavarotti, had died. The sound of his voice is something that I have carried inside my head since my early 20s when I first heard him sing La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera. I heard…
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Refuting the Attacks on Mother Teresa
Deal W. Hudson September 10, 2007 The attacks began on August 23, the day Time magazine published an article by David Van Biema, “Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith,” quoting her letters to confessors and superiors from over 66 years. In those letters, recently published under the title Mother Teresa: Come to Be My Light(Doubleday), Mother Teresa reveals the…
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Why I Am a Catholic Republican
Deal W. Hudson September 13, 2007 I’m not a Republican because I think Republicans are fun or especially good company. If I were looking for sociality or cordiality in my political party, I would look elsewhere. I would also look elsewhere if the GOP ever turned its back on the issues that brought me into…
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Will Dr. James Dobson Damage the Christian Vote?
Deal W. Hudson October 2, 2007 Dr. James Dobson is the founder of the largest, most influential, Evangelical organization in America, Focus on the Family. His radio show reaches two million listeners every day, and he’s easily the most important Evangelical leader in the country. As a result, Dobson’s political pronouncements carry a lot of…
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